Methodology

The Workshop will train participants of up to 17 national statistical offices on quality assurance and its implementation throughout the national statistical system. The Workshop will provide an overview of the contents of the Manual and the UN National Quality Assurance Framework and will review and discuss the implementation of quality assurance in participating countries. The Workshop will provide an opportunity for participating countries to share their country practices and challenges on the implementation of their national quality assurance framework. In addition, the Workshop will discuss the quality assurance for census and surveys and when using administrative and other data sources. The new draft Module for Quality Assurance when using Administrative and Other Data Sources to produce Official Statistics, developed under the auspices of the UN Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Framework, will be also introduced and discussed.

The workshop is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division and the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UN SIAP) in cooperation with the National Statistics Office of Mongolia.